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• ‟ I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

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• ‟ I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

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• ‟ Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

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• ‟ I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

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• ‟ I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

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• ‟ For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

  - Wallace Shawn